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The five sentences below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Arrange them in the correct order and key in the sequence of numbers as your answer.
1. Yet field trials repeatedly show that farmers using such calendars still over-irrigate, suggesting the barrier is not information but trust in an unfamiliar authority.
2. Extension agencies have long tried to solve this by distributing crop-specific irrigation calendars based on soil-moisture models.
3. Overcoming this trust gap has proven harder than refining the models themselves, since it requires a change in farmer behaviour that no amount of additional agronomic precision can, by itself, deliver.
4. Many smallholder farmers irrigate on a fixed schedule inherited from their parents, regardless of actual soil moisture or crop stage, leading to substantial water waste.
5. Some agencies have responded by pairing the calendars with visible, farmer-led demonstration plots, reasoning that seeing a neighbour's field outperform one's own builds trust faster than a printed chart ever could.
1. Yet field trials repeatedly show that farmers using such calendars still over-irrigate, suggesting the barrier is not information but trust in an unfamiliar authority.
2. Extension agencies have long tried to solve this by distributing crop-specific irrigation calendars based on soil-moisture models.
3. Overcoming this trust gap has proven harder than refining the models themselves, since it requires a change in farmer behaviour that no amount of additional agronomic precision can, by itself, deliver.
4. Many smallholder farmers irrigate on a fixed schedule inherited from their parents, regardless of actual soil moisture or crop stage, leading to substantial water waste.
5. Some agencies have responded by pairing the calendars with visible, farmer-led demonstration plots, reasoning that seeing a neighbour's field outperform one's own builds trust faster than a printed chart ever could.
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Answer: 42135
Sentence 4 introduces the core problem (fixed-schedule irrigation causing waste) and opens the paragraph. Sentence 2 presents the standard institutional response (irrigation calendars). Sentence 1 complicates this with the trial finding that calendars alone don't work, pointing to a trust problem. Sentence 3 elaborates on why this trust gap is the harder problem. Sentence 5 closes with the specific solution agencies have tried (demonstration plots) in response to that trust gap. Order: 4-2-1-3-5.
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